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A show like 'True Detective' is definitely a drama.

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I come from labor country. My mom was a teacher and was very involved in the teachers' union.

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I'm a big believer in the value of labor unions and with what collective effort gets people.

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I think we all are kind of colored by whatever we were raised with or what we came up believing in.

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I love working with actors, and it's all been based on my being trained in the theater.

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I was a directing student and a production design student at Carnegie Mellon. I went in as a production design student and became a directing student.

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Both of our children are adopted, and my wife and I didn't go out of ways to find kids that looked like us. We were just happy to have some kids. And people tell me all the time that they look like us, and that's because they learn to smile and laugh and move their head a certain way from studying their parents' faces.

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You can demonize Goldman Sachs all you want, and I'm sure there are reasons to do it. But the real pressure is all of us pressuring the companies for stock returns, and that leads to all kinds of decisions.

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You have to have wonderful actors for material, particularly difficult material that requires complicated performances.

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I grew up in a family that was very barbed and difficult, and there was a lot of humor. None of it was painless humor. All of it was at someone else's expense. It was kind of always about power.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Producer

Born: May 28th, 1956

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